National Account Manager – Food Service & Ambient
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a National Account Manager – Food Service & Ambient to join the team at the Wembley site.
Main duties include (but not limited to):
- Develop, agree and implement the commercial strategy, agreed with the Senior Management Team.
- Category Management. Ensure efficient management of the product range utilizing all aspects of category management, including promotions, sales.
- Liaise with technical, purchasing, and production departments of the business that impact upon sales and influence these to deliver forecast requirements.
- Manage communication and relationships internally and externally to ensure all relevant parties are fully informed on applicable issues and effective decisions are made.
- Interact with relevant internal and external departments to ensure customer service level requirements are in the forefront and actively identifying methods of improvement.
- People management, manage and provides PDP, support and direction for direct reports.
- Develop and sustain a close working relationship with the Business' customers.
- Actively seek out commercial opportunities for new commercial propositions for the business from new and existing customers to achieve Business goals.
- Liaise with marketing and product development managers to understand product range and identify unique selling points, i.e. history of product, safety, quality. Using these points to sell the product/ranges.
- Understanding the wider groups competencies, specifically aligning, and working with colleagues in sister sites.
Requirements, experience and person specification:
- Group and site induction.
- Level 2 compliance courses (Slips & Trips, Manual Handling, Risk & Responsibilities, Food Safety for Manufacturing).
- Understanding of relevant risk assessments and trained as competent to safe working procedures.
- Understanding and application of hazard identification and near miss reporting.
- Category experience, leading a product range with leading partners
- Exposure to budget management, sales strategies
- Management of people experience
- Competent in Excel/Word/PowerPoint
- Understanding of operating systems i.e., NAV
- Senior Management team, Marketing Manager, Development Manager, Operations Manager, Technical Manager.
A full job description is available upon request.
Salary to be discussed at interview stage.
If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made your line manager aware before applying and confirm this when submitting your application.
To apply, please submit your covering letter/CV and salary expectations to: kb.recruitment@cypressa.co.uk
Please note that if a suitable candidate is found, this closing date may be brought forward.